Am I the only one to notice the coincidence that the Tea Party Convention met in Nashville, which is also the title of a 1975 Robert Altman movie about (among other things) an anti-establishment presidential candidate? Hal Phillip Walker, the standard-bearer of the Replacement Party, would have felt at home last weekend in Nashville.

Walker's populist platform included forbidding lawyers from serving in Congress ("Did you ever ask a lawyer the time of day? He told you how to make a watch, didn't he?"), taking on oil companies, abolishing the Electoral College and eliminating farm subsidies. Some of his positions, such as taxing churches, might not go over so well with some Tea Partiers, but the ethos of his campaign was distinctively populist/outsider. Consider this quote:

"Fellow taxpayers and stockholders in America. On the first Tuesday in November, we have to make some vital decisions about our management. Let me go directly to the point. I'm for doing some replacing. I've discussed the Replacement Party with people all over this country and I'm often confronted with the statement -- 'I don't want to get mixed up in politics,' or 'I'm tired of politics,' or 'I'm not interested.' Almost as often, someone said, 'I can't do anything about it anyway.' Let me point out two things. No. 1: All of us are deeply involved with politics whether we know it or not and whether we like it or not. And No. 2: We can do something about it. When you pay more for an automobile than it cost Columbus to make his first voyage to America, that's politics."

Also, he was capable of surreal Sarah Palin-esque rhetoric: "Have you stood on a high and windy hill and heard the acorns drop and roll? Have you walked in the valley beside the brook, walked alone and remembered? Does Christmas smell like oranges to you?"
Was "Nashville" prophetic? You betcha!

Nashville is a 1975 American musical film directed by Robert Altman. A winner of many awards, selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, Nashville is generally considered to be one of Altman's best films.

The film takes a snapshot of people involved in the country music and gospel music businesses in Nashville, Tennessee. It has 24 main characters, an hour of musical numbers, and multiple storylines. The characters' efforts to succeed or hold on to their success are interwoven with the efforts of a political operative and a local businessman to stage a concert rally before the state's presidential primary for a populist outsider running for president of the United States on the Replacement Party ticket. In the film's final half-hour, most of the characters come together at the outdoor concert at the Parthenon in Nashville...

The 1992 presidential campaign of H. Ross Perot and his Reform Party is reminiscent of the campaign of the "Replacement Party" and its candidate in this film, Hal Phillip Walker. Walker has a twang in his voice, a talent for folksy maxims and a willingness to say things other politicians don't dare to say.

The shooting of Barbara Jean in the climactic scene foreshadowed the murder of John Lennon in 1980. In an interview on the DVD, Altman remarks that after Lennon's death, reporters questioned the director about "Nashville" and its harbinger of the assassination of a music star.

Robert Altman: "When John Lennon got assassinated, I get a call immediately from the Washington Post and they said 'do you feel responsible for this?' and I said 'what do you mean responsible?' 'Well I mean you're the one that predicted there would be a political assassination of a star'. 'And I said 'well I don't feel responsible', but I said, 'but don't you feel responsible for not heeding my warning?' The statement here is, these people are not assassinated because of their ideas or what they do. They're assassinated to draw attention to the assassin. And in political assassinations, in their sort of warped minds, they know that they are going to have a certain amount of people who said 'That son of a bitch [the politician] should have been shot,' because there's such heat about it. But actually what they are doing is killing somebody who's in the public eye and is some sort of an icon. Because this feeling that by, doing that, committing that assassination they draw the attention to themself, and they make themselves consequently important. Ah, and it's no surprise to me, the Lennon assassination, because this is what all that is, and I don't think we have seen the end of it either."

Nashville is a colorful, well-known city in several different arenas. As such, it has earned various sobriquets, including:

Music City, USA: …
Athens of the South: …
The Protestant Vatican or The Buckle of the Bible Belt: …
Cashville: …
Little Kurdistan: …
Nash Vegas or Nashvegas

Nashville is the fifth album by indie folk musician Josh Rouse. It was released in 2005 by Rykodisc.

I was seeing signs that he [Obama] would be assassinated at the Nashville Debates

It appears some Neo-Nazi's wanted to kill 88 african americans, and then behead an additional 14 ... culminating with the assassination of Barack Obama...

They wanted to wear TOP HATS *freemasons*--- and chose the numbers 88 and 14 because they are "significant" to nazi's for some reason. 88 = Heil Hitler according to these nazi's... H is the 8th letter of the alphabet….

“Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the Nashville, Tenn., field office for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, said authorities took the threats very seriously.

"They said that would be their last, final act _ that they would attempt to kill Sen. Obama," Cavanaugh said. "They didn't believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying."

He added: "They seemed determined to do it. Even if they were just to try it, it would be a trail of tears around the South."”

Another interesting top hat coincidence - the Freddy Kruger resonating Johnny Depp:

As a Freddy look-alike:



With a top hat as Willy Wonka:



His next role as the Mad Hatter:



Some other Mad Hatters:





Now to that 88 thing. Al Pacino's movie "88 Minutes" started filming on October 8, 2005. October comes from eight, so October 8 is 88. The movie has to do with a serial killer whose conviction was helped by Pacino's character, "Jack." Johnny Depp hunts Freddy-resonating serial killer Jack the Ripper in "From Hell." Note the cover of the novel "From Hell" features a top hat:



And here's the '88 Omaha debate in which the famous line, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" was uttered:



Omaha sure looks like Obama, doesn't it?

Here's child actor "Jack" Wild in a top hat in "Oliver!":



Now here's an interesting book:

When the Soul demands evolution, one must trust you are up to the task, and that the way will be provided. "Awakening is not an invitation to a curiosity, but rather a breaking through" of Divine Mind, inspired and invited by Love.
—Rasha

1840’s ... It was evident from the very start that the top hat wasn’t simply any ordinary hat. The first time John Hetherington wore the hat in public, women screamed and fainted, and crowds gathered. It caused an absolute uproar which led to his arrest

BP's latest bid to stop the oil leak was a new containment box that reached the seafloor overnight after being lowered late Tuesday by a crane from the deck of the Viking Poseidon. The box, dubbed a top hat, was initially set down away from the gusher while engineers work to avoid problems that scuttled an earlier effort, BP spokesman Bill Salvin said.

TENNESSEE TOP HAT - Another word for a mullet, a long under rated hair style that truly exudes power, respect, and most importantly, dignity.

If George W. had a Tennessee top hat, we would not be in the situation we are in now...Osama would have turned himself in years ago out of sheer respect for the mad mullet W. was sportin'!

WASHINGTON - JUNE 6: President Barack Obama speaks during a television taping underneath the box where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre June 6, 2010 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attended a performance of 'America Celebrates 4th of July' which honored South African Justice Albie Sachs and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu with the 2010 Lincoln Medal.